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Messick Through 8 Starts

March 31, 2026

In his first start of the year, Parker Messick tossed six scoreless against the Dodgers.

It was the fifth time in his eight career starts that Messick has gone at least six innings while allowing one or fewer runs, tying an MLB record.

He’s 16th player in MLB history to accomplish the feat, though it’s becoming more common for young pitchers to dominate (and get pulled after no more than six innings) that it’s slightly less historic than it sounds.

Here are the most recent pitchers prior to Messick:

2025 – Noah Cameron, KC
2024 – Paul Skenes, PIT
2023 – Bryce Miller, SEA
2017 – Jake Faria, TB
2015 – Eduardo Rodriguez

The previous franchise record was four games by Vean Gregg, Gene Bearden and Cody Anderson.

The six scoreless innings brought Messick’s career ERA to 2.36.

Among Cleveland pitchers with at least 40 innings pitched through eight career games, that’s the third lowest ERA over the last 100 seasons:

Bearden, 1.81
Aaron Civale, 1.93
Messick, 2.36
Hal Woodeshick, 2.39
Danny Salazar, 2.66
Luis Tiant, 2.72

Parker Messick’s Historic Start

August 27, 2025

In his second career start, Parker Messick tossed seven scoreless innings against the Rays, lowering his ERA to 0.66.

He’s the seventh player in team history to throw at least 12 innings thru his first two outings with an ERA under 1.00.

Here’s the full list:

2008 Scott Lewis – 0.00 ERA in 14 IP
1964 Luis Tiant – 0.50 ERA in 18 IP
1914 Al Tedrow – 0.56 ERA in 16 IP
2015 Cody Anderson – 0.57 ERA in 15.2 IP
Messick – 0.66 ERA in 13.2 IP
2019 Aaron Civale – 0.75 ERA in 12 IP
1946 Bob Kuzava – 0.75 ERA in 12 IP

6 Pitchers in a Shutout

July 31, 2025

Six Guardians pitchers combined for a shutout of the Rockies on Wednesday: Kolby Allard, Matt Festa, Jakob Junis, Nic Enright, Hunter Gaddis and Cade Smith.

It was the seventh time in franchise history at least six pitchers combined on a shutout and the fifth time in a nine-inning game.

Here’s the list of the others, which includes the MLB-record nine pitchers used in a 10-inning shutout against the Tigers in 2016 which was matched for the first time on Wednesday by the Royals.

2024 at White Sox
- Ben Lively, Pedro Avila, Eli Morgan, Cade Smith, Tim Herrin, Hunter Gaddis, Erik Sabrowski
2023 at Pirates
- Xzavion Curry, Michael Kelly, Sam Hentges, Nick Sandlin, Cody Morris, Emmanuel Clase
2017 at Royals
- Trevor Bauer, Dan Otero, Zach McAllister, Bryan Shaw, Andrew Miller, Cody Allen
2016 vs Tigers (10 innings)
- Carlos Carrasco, Jeff Manship, Kyle Crockett, Cody Anderson, Zach McAllister, Perci Garner, Bryan Shaw, Cody Allen, Andrew Miller
2006 at Tigers
- Jason Johnson, Fernando Cabrera, Scott Sauerbeck, Rafael Betancourt, Fausto Carmona, Bob Wickman
2005 at Padres (11 innings)
- Cliff Lee, Arthur Rhodes, Bob Howry, Scott Sauerbeck, Rafael Betancourt, Bob Wickman

Rookie Starters

February 22, 2023

Over the last 40 seasons, only two Cleveland rookies have started at least 15 games while posting an ERA under 3.50: Cody Anderson in 2015 and T.J. House in 2014.

It’s odd that such a list would feature such irrelevant players, as neither had much hype as prospects or did much beyond their rookie years.

Here’s a few others who accomplished the feat, dating back to 1955 (it was slightly more common before then):

1975 – Dennis Eckersley
1972 – Dick Tidrow
1964 – Luis Tiant
1958 – Gary Bell
1955 – Herb Score

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Messick Through 8 Starts

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